Quotes

Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”

I am the punctuation mark of human frailty.

I am the writer’s block, resolved mid-sentence.

I am the OG vibe shift.

The Em Dash • The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.

The Em Dash • The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

Joseph Licklider in 1960 over de computer: The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today."

Fred Turner • From Counterculture to Cyberculture

What's in the cards?

The journal is not so much a way of diarizing one’s life, but a portable studio, a place where you can hang out , with your imagination, your intuition, your inspiration.

Austin Kleon • A journal is a magic space to hang out - Austin Kleon

as an artist, I think I’ll learn how to use new magic — AI tools — by thinking of it as a new toy/tool, rather than feeling threatened or replaced by it (which I don’t). AI is changing the world, with or without me. And my prediction (and hope) is this:

The more that new magic infiltrates the world, the more special old magic will be.

Kening Zhu • The new magic of AI vs. the old magic of artists — kening zhu

From “The Creative License” by Danny Gregory.

Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button

William Gibson • Neuromancer

Wat een fantastische beschrijving van de stad.